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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 12 mins Credits: Cyril and Betty Ramsden
Subject: COUNTRYSIDE / LANDSCAPES RURAL LIFE SPORT TRAVEL
Summary This film contains footage of Betty, Cyril and two of their friends as they visit Wensleydale. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post.
Description
This film contains footage of Betty, Cyril and two of their friends as they visit Wensleydale. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post.
Title-Wandering in Wensleydale
The film opens in a small village with views of the cottages and countryside.
Betty and a male friend come out of the `Wensleydale Inn' and walk off down the road. A female friend then exits the inn and walks off...
This film contains footage of Betty, Cyril and two of their friends as they visit Wensleydale. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post.
Title-Wandering in Wensleydale
The film opens in a small village with views of the cottages and countryside.
Betty and a male friend come out of the `Wensleydale Inn' and walk off down the road. A female friend then exits the inn and walks off too.
Cyril and Betty and the other couple walk off down a country lane.
Title-West Burton
Betty and her female friend are down beside the river. Betty helps her to get down off some rocks. This is followed by a shot of the two men walking off down a country path.
The two couples wander into the `Fox and Hounds Inn' and have a drink outside.
Title-Aysgarth Fall
Shots of the waterfall, an extended sequence shows the water flowing into the river. The group sit on the rocky banks of the river.
Title-Wensley
The group walk through a woodland area, and they then come to some fields where some cows graze. There are then different views of the village, the roads, cottages and surrounding countryside.
Title-Redmire Force
This is followed by views of the area, the rivers and woodland.
Title-Bolton Hall
The couples climb over a gate and walk across a field. They then make their way across a small stream by stepping stones. There are views of the grand hall and its grounds.
Title-Pheasants Nest
There is a shot of small eggs in a nest.
Title-Amphibians
The group then cross another river via some stepping stones. This time they hold large wooden sticks to balance themselves as they navigate their way across.
Title-The Gallops
Shots of jockeys and horses galloping together across a long field. Some of the parts are in slow motion.
The group walks back to the village; Cyril and a male friend leave the Inn with suitcases.
Title-The End
Cyril won an award for the film from the Leeds Camera Club